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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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Change Language Voice Word
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
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Body Lover Need Talk Thinking True Love
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
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Deep Dream Fantasy Girl Human Sea Voice Wake Up
We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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Evil Goodness Intention People World
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Growth Poet
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
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Book Enough People Reading
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
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Death Life Oneself Remember Yourself
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Alone Escape Hell Oneself Philosophy Spiritual
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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Philosophy Place Travel
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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Bad Enough Possible
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
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End Friendship Reality Repair
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Evening Life Morning Myself
You are the music while the music lasts.
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Last Music Yourself
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Fear Feeling Grief Music
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Beautiful Courage Enough Life Man
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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Acceptance Past
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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Beyond Escape Experience
In my end is my beginning.
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Beginning End Myself
The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Act Greatness Reason Right Wrong

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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